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Start-Up Creation
The Smart Eco-efficient Built Environment
- 1st Edition - May 13, 2016
- Editors: F. Pacheco-Torgal, Erik Stavnsager Rasmussen, Claes G. Granqvist, Volodymyr Ivanov, Arturas Kaklauskas, Stephen Makonin
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 1 0 0 5 4 6 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 1 0 0 5 4 9 - 1
Start-Up Creation: The Smart Eco-efficient Built Environment provides a state-of-the-art review on high-technology applications and explains how these can be applied to improve t… Read more
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provides a state-of-the-art review on high-technology applications and explains how these can be applied to improve the eco-efficiency of the built environment. Divided into four main parts, the book explains the key factors behind successful startup companies that grow from university research, including the development of a business plan, the importance of intellectual property, necessary entrepreneurial skills, and innovative thinking.Part Two presents the latest research findings on nano and bio-based technologies and their application and use to the energy efficiency of the built environment. Part Three focuses on the use of genetic algorithms, Big Data, and the Internet of Things applications. Finally, the book ends with an entire section dedicated to App development using selected case studies that illustrate their application and use for monitoring building energy-efficiency.
- Presents a definitive guide for startups that arise from college and university research, and how the application of advanced technologies can be applied to the built environment
- Includes case studies on new advanced technologies and apps development
- Links startup creation to the eco-efficient built environment through software applications
Academic researchers and industrial professionals working in the civil engineering and construction industry, as well as architects, designers and IT engineers wishing to keep up-to-date with the latest developments in the design of energy-efficient buildings
1. Introduction to start-up creation for the smart eco-efficient built environment
Part One: Business plans, Start-up Financing, Marketing, Creativity and Intellectual Property Marketing
2. Business plan basics for engineers
3. Lean start-up: Making start-up more successful
4. Start-up financing
5. Marketing for start-ups
6. A Minimalist Model for Measuring Entrepreneurial Creativity in Eco-systems
7. Intellectual property
Part Two: Nano and Biotechnologies for Eco-efficient Buildings
8. Nano-based thermal insulators for building energy efficiency
9. Nano-based thermal storage technologies for building energy efficiency
10. Nano-based chromogenic technologies for building energy efficiency
11. Façade integrated photobioreactors for energy efficiency
12. Biotechnologies for improving indoor air quality
13. Bioplastics for building façades
Part 3: Algorithms, Big Data and IoT for Eco-efficient and Smart Buildings
14. Development of algorithms for building retrofit
15. The use of algorithms for light control
16. Big data and cloud computing for building energy efficiency
17. Intelligent decision support systems and the internet of things for the smart built environment
18. App programming and its use in smart buildings
19. Apps for smart buildings: a case study on building security
- No. of pages: 510
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: May 13, 2016
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- Hardback ISBN: 9780081005460
- eBook ISBN: 9780081005491
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F. Pacheco-Torgal
Dr. F. Pacheco Torgal is a Principal Investigator at the University of Minho in Portugal. He holds the title of Counsellor at the Portuguese Engineers Association. He is a member of the editorial boards for nine international journals. Over the last 10 years he has participated in the research decision for more than 460 papers and has also acted as a Foreign Expert on the evaluation of 22 PhD thesis. Over the last 10 years he has also been a Member of the Scientific Committees for more than 60 conferences, most of them held in Asian countries. He is also a grant assessor for several scientific institutions in 15 countries, including the UK, US, Netherlands, China, France, Australia, Kazakhstan, Belgium, Spain, Czech Republic, Chile, Saudi Arabia, UA. Emirates, Croatia, Poland, and the EU Commission. In the last 10 years, he reviewed more than 70 research projects.
Affiliations and expertise
C-TAC Research Centre, University of Minho, Guimaraes, PortugalER
Erik Stavnsager Rasmussen
Erik Stavnsager Rasmussen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Marketing and Management, International Business and Entrepreneurship, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark. His research areas include international new ventures and born global firms.
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Marketing and Management, International Business & Entrepreneurship, University of Southern Denmark, DenmarkCG
Claes G. Granqvist
Claes G. Granqvist is Professor of Solid-State Physics at the Ångström Laboratory, Uppsala University, Sweden. His research is focused on optical and electrical properties of materials, especially thin films for energy efficiency and solar energy utilization. He has written numerous scientific publications, books and proceedings volumes and is a member of several academies and societies.
Affiliations and expertise
Senior Professor, Uppsala University, SwedenVI
Volodymyr Ivanov
Dr. Volodymyr Ivanov has more than 40 years of teaching and research experience on Environmental, Industrial, and Construction Microbiology and Biotechnology in the universities of Europe, Asia, and USA. He has authored 200 papers, patents, book chapters and 8 monographs. His textbook “Environmental Microbiology for Engineers”, Francis & Taylor, 1st (2010) and 2nd (2015) editions, has been adopted for graduate and post-graduate courses in many universities. His research experience includes the supervision and participation in numerous projects on biotechnologies with biofilms and biogranules, microbial transformations of iron, biocementation, bioclogging, bioremediation of soil, and microbiological monitoring of water quality.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, SingaporeAK
Arturas Kaklauskas
A. Kaklauskas is a professor at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, in Lithuania; Member of the Research Council of Lithuania; Member of the Science Europe working group on Data Sharing and Supporting Infrastructures; Head of the Department of Construction Management and Property; member of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences; editor-in-chief of Journal of Civil Engineering and Management; editor of Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence; and associate editor of Ecological Indicators. He contributed to nine Framework and five Horizon 2020 program projects and participated in over 30 other projects in the EU, US, Africa. and Asia. His publications include nine books and 150 papers. His areas of interest include affective computing; intelligent tutoring systems; affective intelligent tutoring systems; massive open online courses (MOOCS); affective internet of things; smart built environment; intelligent event prediction; opinion mining; intelligent decision support systems; life cycle analyses of built environments; big data and text analytics.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Vilnius, LithuaniaSM
Stephen Makonin
Dr. Stephen Makonin is a postdoctoral fellow in Engineering Science at Simon Fraser University. His research interests include data science, big data, computational sustainability, probabilistic modelling, disaggregation, and nonintrusive load monitoring (NILM). Other interests include open science; the making of hardware and software open source and the creation of public datasets.
Affiliations and expertise
Simon Fraser University, CanadaRead Start-Up Creation on ScienceDirect